Background

My name is Jen. You may know me as Jalean06, if you frequent Xanga. I'm a freshman Equine Studies major at a tiny women's college in Indiana. Every year, all of the equine freshmen have to take Training and Handling I, where other people bring in their yearlings for us to halter break. This year, we're starting a pilot program with the Bureau of Land Management: they've brought us Mustangs to work with. Three yearlings, a two year old and a three year old. The three year old is mine and Christina's to work with. This journal is a requirement for class, and I decided to publish it for all of you to enjoy and perhaps learn from. We've never trained yearlings before, although I've dealt with Thoroughbred yearlings. The format is hands-off teaching, though our professor is always observing and will offer guidance if needed. Mainly, we're on our own.

Five Mustangs, ten freshmen, one round pen: the coolest homework any of us have ever had in our lives.